Blogging 101
The Shift Blog has been running now for 18 months, documenting Halton’s journey of making school different. The Shift Blog has grown to include guest bloggers who have helped give voice to other perspectives as we all work to shift our practice. We at the Shift hope to encourage more educators to share their learning through blogging and to that end, we thought we would dedicate a post to some tips for blogging for the the Shift, which we will call Shift Blogging 101. Step Out of Your Comfort Zone: It was bit of a challenge for us to step outside of our comfort zone when we started blogging. Through a lot of trial and error we’ve discovered some things that work for us. We typically think about and talk about the topic of a blog for a few days before we sit down to write. Find a blog buddy: Writing a blog post with a blog buddy is not only more fun, but more effective as well. Once we commit to writing a piece, we get started on a collaborative Google Doc...